IDE

“I don't think that anyone really perceives cursor to be their primary enterprise software development strategy as much as an IDE, which is I think still a great business because they're still going to get a lot of usage, but that sort of is how I see them.”

“The really good coding IDE products, you know, the tool that you're kind of like sitting in and like using to look at the code itself versus the agent product, which is kind of that almost the engineer that you can delegate. You obviously want this to be very …”

“The current shape of an ID will die. Yes. I think we, I don't know what the new, the next ideas, but it's not reading lines of code. It's maybe it's graphical, honestly. Like maybe it's the systems, the architecture that you look at and you review and you plan…”

“Coding has worked so well that we now have to rebuild the IDE, right? I mean, it's kind of nuts to see what we launched is like, oh my God, I have these hundred agent sessions. I, the cognitive load, it transfers back to me as a human is so excessive that now …”

“Coding has worked so well that we now have to rebuild the IDE, right? I mean, it's kind of nuts to see what we launched is like, oh my God, I have these hundred agent sessions. I, the cognitive load, it transfers back to me as a human is so excessive that now …”

“I think for all intents and purposes, IDEs are dead. I think the, you know, the limp along because again, some engineers just love that, that control, but there's no future in them and that there's no one's going to be asking for like the latest feature of lik…”

“If I'm writing, like, mission-critical software for self-driving cars or a NASA or SpaceX mission, I think there's always going to be a need for some kind of IDE.”

“I don't have a percentage stat for you, but I would say, like, the vast majority of code is written by AI, and I would say that now, probably, like, most people are not even, like, opening IDEs. Maybe if they are opening IDEs to, like, maybe you want to own th…”

“And my prediction back in May of 2025 was, by the end of the year, you might not need an IDE to code anymore, and we're gonna start to see engineers not doing this.”

“And I think it's important actually to quad code that it's not an IDE because it sort of distances you from the code that's being written. Like IDEs are all about exploring files, right? And you're like trying to keep all the state in your head and understand …”

“If you're still using an IDE to develop code by January first. You're a bad engineer.”

“So what it's going to be is it's going to be your agent orchestration dashboard. It's you're going to walk in in the morning and be like, yo, so how's it going to do, right? It's like, oh, that one's still running. That one's running a tool. That one needs my …”

“I think with coding, The initial models were also not quite as good, that you needed maybe a bit more capabilities of the base models, and then you needed, I think, figuring out the right way to, like, integrate this into the IDE.”

“So the IDE, I think, in fact, one of the most exciting things is new classes of highly refined IDEs that have even a sort of a telemetry loop with the intelligence layer, but also they kind of act more like heads up displays, right? I have thousands of agents …”

“One of the things that we are experimenting with this mission control in GitHub Copilot is that, right, which is, well, the idea is you go have five, six different branches in which you fire off all these autonomous agents, they all do their work, they come ba…”

“No one on our team actually types letters into an IDE. If I walk through a WeWork and I see someone typing letters in an IDE, they're working in like, 1990, right?”

“And so there's two developer tools that matter. There's the code editor, the IDE, and there's the terminal.”

“Our thesis here now is like, neither a regular terminal nor a regular IDE is like the right approach for agentic developments. Like you really want a tool that's built for this workflow.”

“What's changing with agents is as they gain more and more autonomy, We'll be asked to turn this autonomy into productivity, and the only way we can do that is by doing multiple things in parallel, as we've shown. The moment you do multiple things in parallel, …”

“I think you fast forward six to 12 months from now, and I think people will be familiar with agents to the same level that, that they're familiar with IDEs today.”

“The cost when you are local first and your typical consumer is on a free plan or a Like, 20 dollar a month paid plan limits the amount of high quality inference you can do, and the scale or volume of inference you can do per, like, outcome.”

“Everyone expects these you know, agentic systems to perform at the level of a human, right? Because that's what they're always going to compare them to. But in a lot of cases, they'll have these agents just in the IDE. And that's like the equivalent of onboard…”

“Our take is that it is very unlikely that the optimal UI or the optimal interaction pattern for this new software development where humans spend much less time writing code. I think it's very unlikely that that optimal interaction pattern will be found by iter…”

“So I think that, you know, what the IDE is will totally change over time. And kind of our approach to, you know, having our own editor with premise non, it's gonna have to evolve over time. And I think that that will both include, you can spin off things from …”

“The IDE and building locally has been a thing that people have done for, you know, decades, so probably it's not going to go away in the next, like, couple years.”

“You know, if you define your role as a software engineer is how quickly you type into your IDE, the next few years might leave you behind, you know, because that that is no longer a differentiated, you know, part of the software engineering experience or will …”

“I think in the future, at some point, my guess is that the IDE is going to become less of the focal point and more like an app that you can launch when you need to dig in deeper, but you spend most of your time away from it. So maybe 80% of your time is in a w…”

“Our first product, which is basically a plugin that works across any IDE, 70 plus languages on average generates 45% of the code written by the developers using it.”

“So when I think about the coding space and where we can play and add value, it really is on the agentic side. It's not on the ID side.”

“If every browser in the world doesn't have this experience in the future, I'd be surprised if every IDE in the future doesn't have the ability to like, here, let me just show the model what's happening here, share my screen, talk to it live. Like, I think that…”

“I think the future that we're going to see with the multimodal live API is really the ability for the model to or just like generally for models to be co-present in the experiences that you are. And like, you could imagine your IDE is the best experience of th…”

“One of the really beautiful parts about our product that is very different than a chat GPT is we can not only see if the acceptance happened, but if something more than the acceptance happened and it happened even more than that, right? Like, let's say you acc…”

“The second one are IDEs, because you're talking about actually the virtualizing the actual runtime environment you are in to actually build apps on top of it, which requires sophisticated capabilities, a lot, you know, access to, you know, a good amount of com…”

“Somewhere where I disagree with him is that you need to own the IDE. I think like he made kind of some good points about, you know, not having platform risk in the long term, but some of the, you know, features that were mentioned, like suggesting diffs, for e…”

“I think ultimately a good chunk of developer queries will move to be directly in the IDE, an integrated developer environments that the quotas are using but not all of them.”